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Biography

Pete Klassen is the artist known as Love the Empire. It was in 2005 while laying in a hospital bed that Love the Empire was born. Pete ended up in a hospital bed after a car crashing into him on the side of a highway, crushing his limbs and dying in the snow for 45 minutes waiting for an ambulance. After that experience happened he really wanted to make some key changes in life...and if he was able to play music again he wanted it to be something positive, not only the music, but the name itself.

The name didn't mean anything at first, but it's starting to have more and more significance. "Love the Empire to me is about not only music because that is the foundation but it's about seeing a need and meeting it, loving people, and loving life. It's about trying to make a positive impact in what ever possible way I can." - Pete Klassen

Summer 2007 Love the Empire came out with the debut album To Self-Destruct. "My Long Awaited Life" got played on a radio station CHYR in the Windsor, ON area. Won a battle of the bands with song "The Absent Light". Now Love the Empire is currently recording a new album called ACTIONS with a tour to follow.

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Lyrics

God, the Devil & Angels Battle

Written By: Pete Klassen

Swallowed in the heartbreak of my sins How much longer will I have to pay?These consequences dwell so deep withinShe told me…You know…she saw right though me

Before I fell…Seeking my way out of hellBut that was thenI’ve gotten up again

God, the Devil & the angel’s wage…this battleClaim this life I’d known so wellI don’t have to live this wayHe held me…Long ago…always said he love me

Before I fell…Seeking my way out of hellBut that was thenI’ve gotten up again

Now I found JesusI’m trying to give up this life of lustPursuing all this in my mind, none of which is mineIt’s all in my mind

Fine Line

Written By: Pete Klassen

I try to stare and recognize something Familiar insideI can’t deny that I’m ill equipped To speak into your life

I’ll look to you to educate me on what You’re going throughI can’t presume to know You know how this life goes…more then most

Who am I to think I comprehend to Know what’s wrong or rightIt’s so much more then a fine lineThe answers are so hard to find

I’ll look to you to educate me on what You’re going throughI can’t presume to know You know how this life goes…more then most

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We’re both from different worlds I just can’t comprehendI want to reach out my hand but I just can’t understand

I’ll look to you to educate me on what You’re going throughI can’t presume to know You know how this life goes…more then most

Discography

To Self-destruct (2007) iTunes & Myspace stream. Played on radio stations in Windsor, ON